Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Lisa Lenard-Cook at Maria's Bookshop in Durango

Lisa Lenard-Cook

Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:30 p.m.
Location: Maria's Bookshop
Former Durango resident Lisa Lenard-Cook returns to share her new book on the craft of writing.

The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $19.99
Published: Writers Digest Books, 2008

A great story has a way of seducing you, of pulling you in and taking you along for the ride, like it has a mind of its own. The Mind of Your Story takes writers beyond the basics and guides them through the foundations and the nuances of story creation, allowing them to create fiction that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go.

Coyote Morning(Trade Paperback)
by Lisa Lenard-Cook
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $15.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2004
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability

Anyone who lives in the twenty-first-century West will recognize Lenard-Cook's sharp-eyed portrait of the edgy space between farms and suburbs, old timers and newcomers. But her witty send-up of the environmental issues that vex refugees from city life serves as a powerful and serious means of examining the ways human beings cope with life's mysteries and its inevitable dangers. The complex relations between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters that make up the daily lives of Lenard-Cook's characters will make readers reflect on their own lives and relationship to wildness.


Dissonance(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $21.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2003
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability

""Dissonance . . . is bold in its scale, placing us at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. . . . Few contemporary novels challenge the reader's conscience as "Dissonance does. . . ."--Kevin McIlvoy, author of "Hyssop



Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com

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